MEETING OF THE LEFT AND PROGRESSIVE FORCES OF EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA IN MARSEILLE

MEETING OF THE LEFT AND PROGRESSIVE FORCES OF EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA IN MARSEILLE

07 November 2017

07/11/2017 BRUSSELS
****Spanish version below***

Maite Mola, Vice-President of the European Left:

The second seminar Shared Visions, between the Foro de Sao Paulo (FSP), formed by almost 100 progressive and left parties of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Party of the European Left (EL), formed by 37 parties of the ecologist and left realm in Europe, will be held on the 09th and 10th of November. The first seminar took place in Berlin, in December 2016, even though the relations between the FSP and the EL have gone already a long way and count on ten years of collaboration and common work.
This seminar is a space of debate and decision making where forces of both continents will analyse the political and social situation and especially to identify frameworks of common struggles and interchange on the path of the construction of internationalism, which is so important today in a globalized world dominated by the multinationals.
Topics like security, solidarity, the reconstruction of the movement for peace, the geopolitical as well as international economic order, the free trade agreement between the EU and Latin America, deindustrialization, environmental policy, tax havens, equality between men and women, migration, the judicialisation of the political life, defence of public services or the reduction of working time will be analysed together, as will be also the construction of the unity of the left and the popular unity in order to seize power, to not only to resist.
We are counting on the presence of personalities from both sides of the Atlantic, such as the Executive Secretary of the FSP and the responsible of international affairs of the PT of Brazil, Mónica Valente, leaders from Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador or Venezuela as well as European leaders from the Spanish state, Germany, France, Italy, Finland or Portugal amongst others.
We expect a strong participation also of the social fabric of Marseille, as those international debates have to be open to the citizenry in order to better understand the realities of other parts of the world and other regionals constructs such as the ALBA, UNASUR or MERCOSUR, being so different compared to those of the EU.